THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INHERITED RETINAL DISEASE DNA DATABANK

Abstract

[...] the department comes into contact with a significant proportion of all of the sufferers of Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) in Western Australia at least once in their lifetime. Collection of DNA began in late 2002, and since that time 368 blood samples and 97 Buccal swabs have been obtained from consenting individuals, resulting in storage of DNA from 465 sufferers of an IRD or their family members.